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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-11-01, Page 6THE WAR AT OUR DOOR, e The 11311414 Aniiu1ty hate picked up a German wirelese deciariug that the eeatget of Ameriaa, Canada and Cuea are in ihe,:. war zone, mut that they will be bleekaded. Tht mottos time german attlimarinee aill eedit he OP' engine or: our eottette and poseibly tiOnto of our coast towus bombarded. There is auother peesible eventuality. These eubmarinse may be able to Carry geaplance, whlth.catt be used to fly over Canadiau and American ter- ritory and murder innoeeut men„ we - Inca aud eitildren, aa they do in Eng- land -For these things Canada ehould have null ,prepared long ago. She it at war and the cannot expect to en - %rely (escape the raeagee oe'leale °ter, our coaste ohouldebe pretty well patrolled and protected, and Ger- many will find that it le no esay thine to blockade the Amertean coast. We would infer from this new move that Von Tirpitz ha suceeeded Vert OaPelie as the cleminating influence lu German naval affairs, Tirpitz stilt pine hie faith on the U-boat, the more especially ati he has little hope of vtc- tory on lane. Our GoverInuent can do little to protect our shores. For the present we will have to depend to nn—e-Geme extent on the American fleet, and its destroyers for help. GERMANY'S PEACE TEMIS. In a general way, the Gelman Gov- ernment has made it known that the Pope's peace proposals meet with ite approal. But no concrete statement has ever come from the Kaiser or hie Chancellor as to what Germany's peace terms are. Germany is either afraid or aehamed to state them. The terms she was prepared to enforce when she thought she was to \yid the war meant something akin to the sub- jugation of the whole of Europe to German domination. But as time pass- ed and hope of victory went glinuneri ing, those terms were to be modified, Yet Germany has not given up hope, hence she will not make known any Peace terms. She will generalize and temporize with a view to have hostili- ties stopped,. Bo that she might make a favorable peace by conference. She has still some hope that she mate gain a decislote.and as long as that hope remains she will keep her peace terms to herself. Von Kuhlmann, the German.For- eight Secretary, we think it waeir said that nothing but Alswee-Lorraind stood between the belligerents and peace. But, as pointed out by Lroyd George and Mr .Asquith; no direct statement as to the future of Belgium has come from the Germans, although it is well known that the pan -Germans favor the annexation of that country. Lloyd George said the other day that England intended to stand by her gal- lant ally France, until she.redeemed t her oppressed children fromalre degrae.. dation of a eforeign yoke, meaning the redemption of Alsace-Lorraine. And he continued: "I have formerly asked whether Germany was ready to restore Belgium in the only real sense acceptable to the Allies, but I have teceived no senewer, and von Kuehl - Mann, who can be boisterously defin- ite and precise concerning Alsace-Lor- raine, preserves regarding Belgium an anbroken but significant silence." Speaking at Liverpool recently, Mr. Asquith said: "But the dominant fact with elach we have to deal is neither •Gerraan pub, lic opinion, nor the German Patent - runt, but the German Government. Does that Goverinnent mean business? Is its desire for peace sincere? Depend upon it, the world will never find the way to peace through a morass of equivocations and atnbiguities. Peale questions and concrete cases are stud- iously asoided. We are left in the dimnees of a rhetorical twilight and We are asked to lay down our emu without other safeguards than that we shall be offering a unique exhibition of the three virtuea, faith, hope and charity." Von Hindenburg may not have any license to speak for the German Gov- ernment or for the Kaiser. but he le reported as saying: "But now Eng- land shall feel the sharpness of our Sword until she perishes. Keep open the doors of international eontmerce forever tor everybody." Tho ansvat.r to this le supplied by General Haig and his "contemptible array." A Novelty This— it is for the lady who knits. And is to hold her worked. Ea fact, that is What it le --a worsted holder. It is of silver -plate (in bygone days We called it German silver). It is simply a flat stand With straight arrangement upoh which the . Wool may be found in tapering spool fashion. Not expensive and a suggestion of "what to give" the lady knitter who "has everything," but may not have this. rer.i***10. Or* rlitteleal Vibrations. We can take the scale, of vibrating, beginning witn the ehorteet woe e lengths that hate been mew:tired-the gatunta raye given off by realm, witielt are only about one one hun- dredth of a Millimeterlong --and end- ing with the longest Icnown electre- magnetic wavee, 10,000 nectette or mere In length, and arrange them in a sole of oetavea line the musical scale. 111 the Scientific; Motithly Profeseor M- ee' Vance Guthrie of the Louisa= State univeraity sines they will cover euet anent feety-eight octattes, of welch tile rays that are visible to our eyee comprise but -one. NE11.---e1tude's engagement ring ia pearl, Belle -But pearls •tire embletie Atte Of tears. Nell --Yee, and tile poor girl is Crying her eyc ttt.Sir! CI- lieeted a dittinend. ‘ott. , ••••••••••"....0.0.*0.4.4.0NelAe.""01,, . She hastenee to prepare a simple said, MIMS'. meal. Self-conselousnese die not , your own. choice, Why drag me into "It's UP to you to make trouble her if she might be busy. Sani it?" loved to follow her graceful move- ' "You say you want be friend," ex- Ments by the fire. What harm? he platned Bela, "So I think you help asked elle watch -dog within. "Chia me." dog hal grown drowsy, anyhow. "Nobody can help you in it matter Bela's curiosity in turn began. to of this kind." saki Sam, "Lord, you have way. talk like a wooden man!" something "Where you live before you come whispered to hint while he eteid it. here, Sam?" she asked, "Why?" she asked with one ot her "In a eity. New York, It ise't real sidelong looks, living." Again his eyee flashed on her in "I lcnow a city!" she excettimed• angry pain. God! Was the welnan "Muscfoosis tell me. They got trying to madden him? houses high as jack -pines. Windows eA girl must make Iter own choke," wide as a river, At night a thousand hi - it tongue said primly, thousene moons hang dowu to IVA - - "But you could tell me about them, the people light." "Itight!" said Sam. "What would, kin:ow ?" hich is the hest man. How do I you say to a eky-scraper, I wonder, Phis on the face of it seemed like "Wind is a sky -scraper?" a reasonable request, but his breast "Like tifty houses piled up one on still passionately rebelled. top of the other, and reaching to the "'Well, I won't!" he snapped. "If sky," • gen thate all you want to talk about I'd Bela pouted. ' "You mak' better go." think because I know tieing." "Is Big Jack a good man?" sho per; "Honest to goodnese!" he swore. sieted. "What good to be so high?" she Sam got up. asked, "High roof no good.' "No, don't go!" she cried quickly. "There are different Hoare inside. 11 be good, I don't know why you Fifty of them." "How do people get to the top?" always mad at me." "ln an elevator. Kind of box you Netther did Sant himself know. He get into. Whiz, up she goes liee looked at ner dumbly with eyes full of pain and confusion. He sat down filet!" Bola's face showed strong iucredul- again. For awhile she made light conver- ity, She let the subject drop, "You got fat'er, mot'er out there, sation about muskrats and beavers, but when she thought lie was safely Sam? She asked. He shook his head, "Both &tea." settled down, womanlike, she was "You got no people 'tall?" she ask- obliged to return to the forbidden sub. jecTthere was a pain in her breast as ed, quica with sympathy. "Brothers," lie .eaid grimly. "Three of them. They don't think much of well as his, What was the matter with him that he treated her so des- tine" One question followed another, and pitefully? How else could she find out the time flew by, They were making what was in his heart .but by making famous progress now. They ate. him lose his temper? Afterward Sam stretched out in the "Maybe I tak' Big Jack," she re- gress with his hands under his head, • marked casually. and told his story freely. "All right," returned Sam, bitterly. "Gad, what a relief to talk!" he "He's the richest." eaid. "I haven't really opened up "A regular woman's reasou. 1 wise since we left Prince George. Those yhh jog:, fellows, .thee"re all right in their way, Would nothing move him? Beta felt but pretty ecarse, We don't hit it ott s if she were beating wan iier bends much. I keep mum to aveid trouble.' t ri a rock, "What do you care?" she "I lak hear you talk," murmured a:itteci insolently. s Both volees rang Bela softly. with bitterness now, "My bec"iers are all a lot older th?'31 "I don't care." I." Sam went on. "I was the baby of She sneered. the family. It's considerable of a .What you get mad for?" • handicap to a kid. The baby you Sam's endurance gave- way, Ile along until after' you've grown up, sprang up. then all of a sudden they expect you "It's rotten!" he cried. eTh e whole to stand alone. business! That's what makes me 'I was always a kind o fmisfit some, how. 'never knew why then. I lack mad! Have you no shame, setting a whole camp of men against each an instinct all other fellows seem to other like that? And 'coolly talking' have to hang together and boost -each ether along. School seemed like such ovieiewhich one you'll take! I tell you a silly affair to me; I wouldn't learn. it'll likely end bit merger. Maybe you'd• like that. Give ' you quite a In businesa afterward it was worse. e"ely brothers took .me up one after send -Off, ,ell? Well, you can't drag another. :They are all well-to-do. One me into it, I like a different kind of is presidene, of an eleatria-light plant, woman." one is'a corporation. lawyer, tho other Bela was no table spirit. Anger an - remit a big otore. Keen on -business, sweren anger.She faced him pale and Oil of thein,' I tried to make good tblazing-eyed. • With each one, honest I -did. But "No woman want you, anyhoW!" sickened in office. ItIyebfain Bunted she cried. "You cook! You: only to turn- to raush. 'Impossible for me half man! You too scare. to fight for 'a woman! You only talki Go away to get up aur interest in business. "to I got mud along from one to from me! I tak' a man for my another. Naturally, they thought 1 'osban'!" Was AO good. I thought so, too, A Sam, ,beside himself with rage. 'dog's lifer Their wives, that was 'stepped forward and raised his worse. All regular rich men's wives, clenched' fist over her head. Bela drazy about society and all. that, and laughed in his face. Suddenly he having things .better than the neigh- seemed to see himself from the out - bets. De you understand whet I side, and was filled with blank hor- ror. mean?" "No," Bela confessed, "Some day Turning, he snatched up his coat I will. n Don' stop, I lalt hear it and 'shirt, and crashed ,blindly away through the willows. all." "Well, me with my untidy clothes, ' "Go and do your cobkin'!" Bela I was a thorn in the side Of those cried after him. Vsibly• turned -up their noses • • bhiths ggeha wp.s, on the opposite when I came around. On e day "'after side Of the ereek from ,the manes te- a big row With"my eldest* ,brother I blio The only place where Sam could just Walked off. I've been regularly •crose without getting another wet - up agabest It ever since. Just a year ting was 13 ego. Seems -more 'line ten. 1.'ve lived the lake. bytheheaded s epp ufgo-rstones pines sr th t i a thousand lives. where the going was better and en - "You take a big baby like I was and circled the edge of the meadow. throw him on the world—well, he A great turmoil was going on witb. won't have to go to hell to fihd out Lit him. He was aghast at the gust of ' what's it likel , I've learned in one 'passion that had drowned (111 'his sen - Year what Most fellowe take twenty ses for a moment, He had not known to seek in. Now I'm beginning' to hiec0M. ° snot a neeadr tsouchstripkoisasgibilaiti:.solnaeencl seo light, to get solid ground under my feet. Of course I haven't- got Horrible! anything yet'!—Sam smiledehpree-"but • Naturally, lie _did not fail to blame I know what I want." • "What you want?" asked Bela, Iter.A devil—to provoke men ,to suell a pitch of madness!' 'Well, he was quIckly. done with her. Anyhow, he had .seen "To live a natural life. I've found her. now in her true colors, She was out that is what I was made for. Any - no good! 'Phere could be no further thing all laid out and regniar like argument about that. If he had ever school or businees simply floors. me. I had anything further to do with her want a little piece of land of ray own, ell my own. I'll build my own house let him be 'called a soft headed fool! on it and =hie my own grub. I Want Forcing his way blindly through the to do what I want -Without anybody underbush, stumbling Over roots, and else's say- so. That way I feel I can Plunging into holes, he completed his make good. The idea is to build up detour around the meadow. As he fomenting that You can see 'grow." come out beside the ford he heard his "All alone?" asked Bela with a name called urgently:" "Sam! Sam!" casual air. Sam's heaet miesed a beat, then , 'Notwithstanding' hie anger, and in the very act of the brave vows lie was overtook it. . taking, the voice found his heart like "I like to be alone," he said quick- ly. "That's what I came up here for. a bullet, stopped dead with hang- ing arms and looked strickenly in the I have made up my mind to it. I direction whence it. came. don't get along well Nvith people." .Presently the, dugout came flying Bela was silent. around a bend in the creek above, From time to time Bela glanced nar- She landed at the head of the little rowly at Sam through her lashes: He rapids, and ran toward him, He wait - presented a terrific problem to one ed with somber eyes. of her experience. She found this She stopped at three paces distance friendly interchange delighttue but afraid to come closer. The savage wes it all? had disappeared. Her face Site had no feeling of being a wo. softened with emotion, . . • e was all man to him. She began to feel a great "Sam, I sorry I call na.mes," she dissatiefaction. An imperious instinct said very low. "That was lay mad - urged her to sting him out of his com. ness speaking out of my mouth. I fortable disregard of her sexeller op- not think those things in my heart. portunity t ante when SaM said: Pleaee forget it." "Y tu have never told me what it His eyes ,bored her throegli and wee you wanted to talk to me about."mee through, "Another trick lo get you "Ali those men want. marry going?" the voice inside him aelted, she said offhand, "Don' look at me lak that," she fal. It was instantly effective. Sam sat terecl up abruptly and stared at 1 it ttg --1 ---* "How do I know what to believe?" tenisbment. Was she, after all, the Sam said harshly. "You say so many evil woman lie bat first thought? Had things." he been deceitfully lulled into sec.uri- "I jus' foolin"bOut these ot'er ty? She repeated her statement, His she said, "I net Marry one Of them. face harderted. 1 sooner jomp tho 'eke" "So I Whored," he replied sarcas- A seeret spring gladness spurted neatly, up in Sam' breatit. "Do you mean Bela was secretly pleased by the ef. that?" be demanded. fect "What you think 'loin it?" she "I Mean it," she reinied. aelted. ,., He gazed at her strongly, desiring "1 don't think anything about it to believe, but .suspielous still, Ilia he answered with an angry flash. slower neture could net 'credit auelt a "I not knoW what to tell them," :aid Bela, lt, bad a faint theatrical rapid Change Of front, ring, whieli Might have Suggegted to a "non' look at the lak that," she disceiminating ear that she was mit said again. "Wel yott want met de?" being altogether "(40 awaY," he said. Sam obstinately closed his Mouth, She looked at hint, startled. "'Which you lett best?" she asked, "If you're in earnest about not want- PreeentlY. "the big one, the bled: Otte, ing to make trouble," he said, WOW) "You've get to go without teeing Mee the red otee, yonnt one?" A groat disCompostre gelled upon et thent again," zoo. Anger PoUnded at his tettples, Iier (Wee Were full of trouble. Ind Wane *words pressed to his "You tell rae go away?" oho whit - tongue, Ile pUt on the etatine, "What I Walt ta neither hare nor there," he thing to do with it," he said. "it's up to Qu" s Mare than ever ineXplleahle to her. "What you gin' to do?" elle esker'. "I?" heplied, nettled. "I'm go- ing up to the head of the lake with the bunch, ot course." There was a peinful finance, while Bela sought vainly in her Mind for the explanation of hie etrange attitude. An inetinet told her lie loved her, but she could Inot make him say it, "You think I bad girl, Sam," she Murmured. 'Bow do I know it hron he asked, Munhly. ‘delaelse's yout chance to prove ta me that you're on the square." "I got go 'way to male you think 3 tWareigh,et?" yhe unmoved, eagerly. "Yoe fenny man, I think," 'see rnur, =red, sadly. "Can't you see it?" he cried. she said. "But I goft.' do what You tell rne I go to -night." "Ah, that's right!" he said with a curious look of gratitude in kis paim haunted eyes, Bela waited for ltim to say =re— but waited io vain. For herself she would quickly have told him She loved him, had riot her tongue been tied be Musq'oosis' positive instructions. And so the unhappy silence continued be- tween them. "Maybe .somebody come tills wag," said Bela at last. "Alta' trouble. Conte up by rny boat." Sam shook his head, "I've got to go back to camp now." "You not see me again. You got not'ing say to me?" asked Bela, de- spairingly. Her hands sought 'his. Same; instincts sprang up in alarm, "What eould I say?" he cried. "What good Would it do? Good-bye!" Snatch. e 1gekh,is hand out of hers, he retreated over thstones, refusing- to look 'When Sam entered the shack Joe faced him, scowling. "Where you been?" he demanded. Sam, in no humor to be meek, made the thamehonored rejoinder. "I'll soon make it my business," ree torted Joe, "With that, see?" show- ing a clenched fist "Have you been with Bela?" Sam, because of the threat, disdained to lie, "Yes," he said, coolly. Joe whirled about to the others. "Didn't I tell you?" he cried, excited- ly. "I heard her calling him. There's underhand work here. He's hid the ga'n'Dsoonyous." uknow where she's hid?" demanded Big Jack. Sam did not feel any .neceesiity of returning a truthful answer to this. "No," he said. "She came on me when I was visiting my muskrat- tnalie." "You're lying!" cried Joe. "I'll smash you, anyhow, on the chance oriltg." BJack stepped between them. "I'm running this show'," he said, grimly. To Sam he bald: "I strike no 'man without warning. I warn you now. 'Phis Is a man's affair. We won't stand no interference from cooks. You keep out. If you don't, Cod help you, that's all!" "And if he leaves you," added Joe, "I'll croak you myself with as little thought as I'd pinch a flea!" "Get the supper!" said Jack Sam clenched h1e. teeth and did not speak again. De the middle of the night Sam awake in the shack with a weight on his breast, and, sitting up in his blan- kets, looked about .hbn. The dying embers of the fire cast a faint light on the figuresof his three companions lying on the floor beside him. Husky still had the sole use of the bed. The cabin roof rang with a grotesque cborus of enores. Sam's gorge rose. The air was 'tainted. He looked at the recumbent figures with a 'curling lip, Was it hate that had wakened him? He had put up in silence with so much at ;their hands! An oblique ray of moonlight struck through the -window over his head, luring ;him like a song. He softly got. up, and, gathering up hit bed, went outside. The pines were like a regiment of gigantic solellers standing at ease un- der the sky and • whispering together -while they waited the word of com- mand, Their fragranee was like a benediction on the air. The moon, low down in the southeast, peeped be- tween the trunks, At the mouth of the creek where the little rapids pour- ed into a quiet pool there was a bank of sand. 'This was the general wash- ing -place of the camp. Sam, thinking erf the sand as a Promising bed, made his way in that direction by the path they had worn. ,As he passed around the house a sha- dow moved from behind a great IsIne and followed him, flitting noiselessly from tree to tree. Sam sat down in the sand, nursing his knees. The mouth 'of the creek was the only spot along shore as yet wholly free of ice. He looked out over the lake through the opening. Under the light ot the low moon the water was the color of freshly at Iron. Somewhere out upon it Bela was Paddling, if she had not already reached home. His breast relaxed its guard against her a little. He believed she was a Pretty fine sort, after all. Had he done the .right Using t, send ter away? She was beautiful enough to make a man's arm ache for her now she had gone. But on the 'whole he was glad she was gone. He did not realize it, but his hour had not quite struck. It was a wholesome instineterthat made him fight agetInst the .overmastering emo- tions that attacked his heart. fHe told himself he cottlthet Afeord to look in that direction He had work to do first. He had to get a toeholdbit this land, Some day, maybe-- Drowsitess overcame hien again. With a steh he stretched out On the sand and relied himself in his blan- kete. Ilis breathing became deep and slow. By and by the coquettish moon Peeped between the tree -trunks acrose the creek and touched his face in his fair hair witb a silvery wand. 'Where- upele it Was me longer a Mere man; it Was yoang Hermee sleeping beside the water. The thaelow stole .frone among the -trees above the sand -bank and crept down to his side.. It knelt teem* with elasped hands. In showed a white fee() In the moonlight, on Which gilistehed taro diamonde. By and by it rote With 6,nergetie ace tion, and still Moving noleelessly as Is ghost, terned toward the lake, and eleMbered arolind the barrier of ice, dropped On the edge a the Water, on the other side. (To be Continua) • • • "It fate had; been kinder to tae, have berried a $10,000-eattear Mahe" datd Mts. rhtbataite. 'You did Marry a $10.000 -a -Year Zen." edr. eletlYtvalte, With dignitet, 4"X110 SleTed. feet 'that I didn't *St it de AO reeled. don Opon Me."—Ilitatinghaln AS* SIM wirtaaa, "I haven't got any., usr&14, FOR SALE Book and Stationery Business IN HANuoroN Established 12 years In good central location. Will be sold at a eacrifice. Good reasons for oiling. Apply to THOS. FRENCH 90 JAMES STREET NORTH HAMILTON, oNT. 1111111111111101111111111 MENACE OF THE SHOE. Bcientist On the Oause and Oure of Foot Ailments. That the conventional snoes we wear from childhood to old age are the main factors in causing foot ail- ments, is the belief of Dr. Jacob Gross- man, who writes oe 'the shoe as an "increasing menace," in the Medical Review of Reviews (New York, April). He says the infant's foot, being delis cately formed and having extremely flexible joints, escapes for a time wearing shoes of stiff leather, but be- fore long the little feet are placed into boxes and thereby so 'cramped that there is serious interference with their development. He protests against children wearing shoes before they be- gin to walk, The writer goes on: "It Is absolutely uopttysiological and dan- gerous to permit these infants to wear shoes because they cramp the feet and interfere with their future develop- ment, Children should not wear shoes until they begin to walk itt thelr bare feet, as this allows the free and pro- per use of the muscles employed in walking. "The outline of the normal foot is practically the same throughout life. The inner border is almost a straight line and the outer border curved with the convexity externally meetiag the inner border auterioriorly. "With few exceptions, this outline is not interfered with until the con- ventional shoe is worn. The continual wearing of these shoes will eventually result in deformed feet. They will subsequently assume the shape of the shoe. Not only does the shape of the con- ventional shoe cause mischief, hut the 1111511111110110•11 "G. To force Children to Walk, either with the aid Of 4 nurse or with go -carte or Walking apparattle, is ab- 00111tely Objectionable. *An sue ap- pliances and devices of any construc- tion whatever are inipraeticable and Unnatural. Humoring the rentluellees Meta of locomotion inereases the deo- ger. 4 "6. Children should hot be taken on long walks where there is little or tio opportenity for them to rest when 01 orcomo with fatigue. "7, Regarding tae ehoice of show, broad -soled shoee to 'Allow unrestrict• ed action of the toes are best . "For older children and adults the rolloWing exercises have proved use- ful In strengthening the Inuicles of the feet: "I. Walking barefooted. "2. Walking upon Gee front part of the foot, "3. Grasping motions with the tom exercises with foot -weights. "The Proper shoes for adults sheuht be built on an anatomical buts. Thee should be made to fit the foot and not as the conventional ehees are made, The conventional shoe makes the foot fit the shoe with conseqUent damage to the feet. Shoes ehould have broad soles and heels which are square and of the proper height. "Foot ailments will exist just so long as the conventional shoe will be In demand." Minard's Liniment cures Colds, Etc. SUBIYIARINE FARM. The Crops Are Merely Pearls of Great Priol and Beauty. One of the queerest farme in the tworld le situated on the Island of Takujima, in the Bay of Ago, Japan. The farm lands lie fathoms deep in Water, according to an article in the "Popular Science Monthly" for June, end the crape are lustrous pearls. Oyster shells are lined with a smooth coating. Which is certononly called mother-of-pearl or nacre. The oyster builds up this lining layer on layer. If any foreign eubstance eveh a grain of sande-eappene to enter the shell of an Oaetee, the oyster imme- diately begins to allay the irritation it causes by surrounding it with the ma- terial it uees to build up the lining of its ellen. This process the oyster keeps up year after year. ,Pearls are not made by oysters alone. Any mollusk may form them, but pearls formed by common oysters and, clams are net tparticularly attrac- tive. - On the farm at Tatokuelma the first °taps toward the proeuctien of the pearls are taken during July and Au- guet of each year. Wherever the lar- gae ot the pearl -oyster have been A good article is worthy of a good package. A rich, strong, delicious tea like Red Rose is .worth putting into a sealed package to keep it fresh and good. A cheap, commbn- tea is hardly worth taking care of and is usually sold in bulk. Red Rose is alwalys sold in the sealed' package which keeps it good. . heels are also offenders. They are too nigh, as a rule. A high heel strains the foot, eventually leading to unnat- ural producing weak feet. "A vast majority of the weak feet that we meet watt usually result from the conventional shoe. This condition is very often overlooked, probably be- cause it is errowniusly called flatfoot. in an analysis or 700 'eetes of weak feet there were it very small percen- tage that showeda flat impression, these few being well -advanced case. As a rule, the symptoms of weak feet are not referred to the le.et. In chil- dren the gait is awkard. They walk upon the entire sole of the foot. The toes are turned outward toed the toss and heels of the shoes are wore down on the inner side. The children quicit- ly. colnplain of pain and discomfort occasianally, and want to be carried continually. Such weak feet in child- hood are often the beginning of severe deformities later on. "Much can be accomplished by car- rying vitt the prophyleele measures subsequently enumerated. In -children, the following suggestions will aid considerably in preventing weaknetta and suffering in later life: "I. The feetof small children must not be forced or pressed into. shoes. "2. Creeping should be encouraged. infaites should be placed upon their abdomen, The desire of locotnotion will soon induce the child to become accustomed to creeping. "3. Abnormal locomotion, suck as eliding over the floor on the butto.tet, develops when chirdren are forced to. assume a sitting poeture at tooearly it date, the creeping period being eup- pressed. "4. The period of creeping must be changed spontaneously by the child into one oe walking. Only when it child of its own accord. attempts to stand up and walk ahead, holding to Some eurrotending object, should it be permitted to do so. :found meet abundant, email pieees of rock and stone cue placed. In a lit- tle while oyster -spat will be attached to these rules, Then the rocks are Fe - moved to beds which have been pre. pared for them in deep waters. If they are left in shallow water doring the winter the oysters inaygperish from the cold„ Theye.re left in the deep watcr 'bees undisturbed for three years. Then they are taken out of the sea, and into each oyster ie introduced a email eee(1 pearl or a small round piece of nacre which serves as the nucleus for a future pearl. The oysters are than returned to the sea, where they remain for four yeans. At the end of that time they are taken out and the harvest of pearls is reaped. Dur- ing the four years the oenter has been Liime: nt..Cures Distemper. 41 ' • Chewing the Crude Rubber. About the first, process rubber goes through on the way to become a tire or tube " is mastication. After the crud Para is washed It is broken up into. lumps and tossed into the crack- ers, These are machines with heavy rollers, which take the rubber in be- tween them and chew it. Eotering teh masticating room of a factory, the first impression is .that there is a brush fire burning or else there is a dett of snakes at hand. The rubber snaps and crackles like burning branches and then hisses ehuddering- ly. The stuff is kept at until it comes up in regular sheets, very thin and looking lilte it sort of cake dusted with crumbs. Then after thorough drying in vacuum chambers it is ready to be put in with the chemicals and other thiligs that make up the compound.— Netv York Sun. When Eve was created Attain lost a rib, but the average married man is more apt to Mee his backbone. 1.1.••••••••••..la•IL. VbAUXYCO�CAADA Issentiroa, SAH. fAtt KAMER HARD ON WILE ONES Collodion tall weather is extreme- ly hard on little ones. One day it .warzpi and bright and tbe uext wet and cold, Thee° getiden chattges bring on colds, tramps and colic, and Melees baby's little stomach is kept right the result may be serious. There is nothing to equal Baby's Own Tablets in keeping the little ones well. They sweeten the stomach, regulate the ibowele, break up colds and make baby thrive. The Tablets are sold by metlictne dealers or by mail at 25 cents a ;boa from The Dr. Medicine Brockville, Out. EVILS OF OVERFEEDING. ..01,••••••••••••••••••11 Good Rule Would Be."Eat Less and Exercise More." The sin of giuttouy is eommon, and therefore much condoned, but like every other violation of nature's laws the penalty. Fat inefficieucy, slug- lish mentality, the reddened nose, the PIntpled face, certain of the chronic skin eruptions and much lenge° and nervousness are due to the abuse of the digestive apparatus. Rich, indi- gestible foods in large quantities, high- ly seasoned to stimulate the jaded pal- ate, are forced into a bode already re- bellious from repletion.. Exercise is largely limited to welking to and from Ike table, and bodily deterioration pro: ceeds rapidly. Many an overfed dyspeptic, suddenly dragged by the stern hand of circum- stances from a life of physical ease and plenty and forced to work out of doors suddenly discovers that his semi - invalidism has. gone, that a chronic: ekin derangement of many years' standing has disappeared and that a new vigor and zest of lite has been given hint. Not every one can spend his whole time in the open air, but a certain amount of exercise and plain, whole- some feed in any amount not exceed- ing the body's needs can be had by, al- most every one, Simple moderate diet and exercise make for health. These are not faddish food theories, they are just plain, common sense.— Exchange. • .4. Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows. What Corns Are, Corns are hard growth which occur on the toe or some other part of the feet. They are generally the result of wearing a shoe too small for the foot, says the Popular Science Month- ly. They are thickenings of the out- er layer of the skin in the centre of which is a nail -like peg whieh projects downward and hurts when pressed upon, Soft corns form between the toes and are only different from others in that they are soaked with perspira- tion all the time. The corn itself is composed of a lump of the outer part of the skin which is caused by the pressure of the shoe at that spot. How- ever, the corn would not result unless the pressure were taken off at inter- vals, and this, of course, is done when you take the shoe off. It stands to reason that if the pressure were con- tinuously applied to this spot the skin instead of overgrowing at that precise point would -waste away. The over- growth of the skin is due to the irrita- tion produced by the preesure. How the World May End. Sometimes it has been suggested that the world will gradually become cold, so that life will be frozen out. M. Rabourdin, a French novelist, however, thinks it possible that the earth may end in an incandescent blaze. The earth's crust, he says, is very thin. at the bottom of the sea, and should it give way in consequence of volcanic action the earth might be con- sumed in flames. "Suppose," he states, "that follow- ing an extraordinary twisting move- ment, due to retreat of the central mass, a large mass of the sea bottom should glve way, and, falling suddenly, should let in the mass of the ocean's waters upon the incandescent interior matter. The water would be recom- posed by the heat, the hydrogen would burn, and it would burn more as it had atess to more oxygen. "The conflagration would then gain In force, accompanied by electric phe- nomena, and the greater part of the earth's crust would probably be dis- placed. The earth passing through a time being to its formative period would again be nothing but a globe of f ire." • - • Spanking Voesn't Cure! Don't think children can be cured of bed-wetting by spanking them. Tho trouble Is constitutional, the child can - REE trgt.MY latgessjitT to ohtiya treatment, with full Instructions. If your children trouble you in this way, send no money, but write me to -day. My treatment Is higily recommended to adults troubled with urine difficulties by day or night. Address. Mrs. M. Summers. BOX WINOSOR, Ontario, Swimming With a Cold. In an address before the leading ear, rime and throat specialists of the coun- try, Dr, Hill Hastings, of Los Angeles, recently called atteution to the danger of a person's swimming, and particu- larly diving, when he has a cold in the head. Comparatively few persons real- ize that it is dangerous, and many even believe that when they have re- covered front a cold and are still an- noyed by exceesive thick secretions in the nose they cah find relief by diving or plunging the head under water. The puruletit Metter washed out is not only a danger to others, says Dr, Hastings, but the diver himself runs a risk of forcing some of the pus into hie middle ear. Most specialists have Observed Unit eases of Mastoid abscess are coal- men every summer during the swim. ming geaBOn. At thelarge car, nese and throat leOspitals It is recognized that the saemming season invariably brings on "a crop of mastoids." The advice to keep out of the water until a "head Cold" is entirely cleared up can. not be too strongly emphasized, rearm rd.a.411. Evening Dress. 'Tie Vivid. There's eerie°, There is emerald. We've gold and silver. Ilroeadee are a furore Skirts aro short, Mae Very eltort. Thoy May or may not hove trails. 13od1ces are likoWise touch abbre. mted. "Washington was a truthful Man," "I've got the habit myssif, now, I ISSUE NO, 44, 1917 1-em=seireignions tint) WANTED. WANTED — rn0P.A.10 1.101n$ TO W train for mama Apply, Wellandra, tfOoPitai, St. Catharines. Viont. artANITR CUTTERS AND LETTER - era wanted; fare advanced. Write, geo. ed. Patti, Sarnia. Ont• _ lee!EN IVANTIM FOIt TANNERIES AT 4'4 Acten, on Grand Trunk, 35 mtlea front Toronto, mcChanival and laboring well( at geoa winos; healthy tbriving town; excellent school; cheat) hoUB° rent and living. Apply Beadmore & Cu., 37 Front street east, 'I`oronto. 'FIRST CLASS WATCHMAKER, wanted. Highest wages. Stead,/ employment, Smiths, Jewelers, Nap- anee, Ont. , . IA'ANTED-CILOVE OPERATORS, WA, "thread, union auio dand 44-11 Ma- chines. Tho Craig, Cowan Co., Ltd. 154 Pearl St. Toronto Ont. ADIES WANTED TO DO — and 114itt Rowing at home: whole or sPare time; good pay; work sent atlY distance, charges paid. Send stainP for particulars. National Mantifactur- ing Co. Montreal, FOR SALE. le ORD STREAMLINE lio0Es--0017' ers the brass radiator; eliminates the Minty appearance; write for circular, Burrowea Ufa'. Co., Toronto. MONEY ORDERS. B Y YOL'It OUT-OF-TOWN SUP - Plies with Dominion Express Mow Orders. Fly,: dollars costs three cents. FOR RENT. P C.R RENT -GOOD FARM ON YONGE 4: street; 215 acres; near Richmond Hill; lot 45; three EprIng creeks; first- class house; ample stabling for hor9e.3, cattle and hogs; water In stables; Metro- politan cars hourly; Richmond Hill stop. Inquire of Mrs, .1. N. Boyle, Richmond Hill, or Coolc & Gilchrist, 33 Richmond street west, Toronto, Ont. FARMS FOR SALE. rrogromerrer• ne OR SALE -TWO ONE-HUN'DItED 4. acre farms, Wellington county, Peel township; no better soil; good buildings and shale trees; flowing wing an each lot; if you want a farm look this one over; will stand Inspection; Immediate Possession given; price and terms right; will meet you at Gladstone or Drayton station; phone In house; rural mail at gate. Walter Baricw111, E. P.. No, Drayton, Ont. ee OR SAL -Fl -,A: CHOICE DAIRY FARM: z- sand loam. A photo can he had of the building. Apply, to John McCor- mick, Kelvin, Ont. K` OR SALE OR RENT -320 ACRES, A-1 A wheat land In Stmthern Man!toba; all cultivated, G. C. Gordon, owner, General Delivery, Vancouver. .13.0. Mansonville, June 27, '13. Minard's Liniment Co„ Limited, Yarmouth, NS. Gentlemen,—It .affords me great pleasure and Must be gratifying to you to know that after, using 26 bottles of your Liniment on a case of paralysis which my father was afflicted with, I was able to restore him to normal condition. Hoping other sufferers naay be ibenefitted by the use of your Liniment, I am, Sincerely yours, GEO. H. HOLMES. r••••••••Yrorm40111e••••••••••arrlirromProrrrrirra•••••=Mr.rarrir. PERILS OF PEARL DIVERS, Dangers That Beset Native Work- ers in the Persian Gulf. The lot of the native pearlers of the Persian Gulf is a hard one, for all run the risk of getting scurvy front the lack of fresh food. lce, ot course, is unknown in the fleet, and the impure water breede worms. Tito boiling and filtering of water do not appeal to ori- ental people as yet. The saibs, or rope pullers, get palms as hard and cracked as an ancient Bedouin's heel. They could prevent this by wearing gloves, but that would be it sign of effeminacy and bring ridicule upon them. The exposure in the water gives many of the divers weak hearts and tuberculosis, and many of them be- come deaf because the weight of the water breaks their ear drums. Sharks abound in the gulf, end many diver have had a hand bitten off. One young Arab was brought to the American dispensary at Kuweit with his whole side laid open by a shark that had got a wide mouth hold upon him. The boy survived. We asked him if he would give up diving now, "No," he said; "I will go back next year. I have to." The danger of drown:11g Is great, for sometimeasa etrong current carries the diver far away from his boat, and before the rope puller can bring him back he is drowned. The Arabs have no pulmotors, and they are not effi- cient in giving "first aid." 11 a man remains too long under water it was "written on his forehead," and that is all there is to it.—T& E. Calverley in Scientific. American, Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria. BARBED WIRE IN WAR. Putting Up and Cutting . Down Barriers is Perilous Work. The erection of war entanglements, even when the trenehee are some dice tance apart, is at all times dangeroue. The men ehip over the perapet and in the first place pound In the sup- ports with mallete, the heads of whielt are carefully wrapped in cloth in or- der to deaden the sound. TWo other men carry the wire drune—a woodea cylinder round which the wire is roil- ed—by means of a lug pole through the centre, and a comrade attachee tae wires to the etipporte. The work is slow and nerve strain- ing, says it Writer in the London elaphic, for star shells burst often and eompel the melt to crouch low and re. mein motionlets until the flare bum" out. To each solder Who takes part In modern warfare thick gloves tor grip- pieg 'Wire and strong inlets for mit - ting it are as essential as the rifle and bayonet. Before an Itesatilt by his own rege meet the eoldier cute his own wire, and he must then endeavor as best he may to cut Red hack his way through the enemyee, pulling down a support here, rutting the wires while the N: chine gun batteries rap out their Intik sage of death toward hien Thus barbed wire, so simple in it- oelf, so deadly when used in the ways described, enters into every phaeo of operation in the firing zone. Akar* "IIs better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at oil,* quoted the Wise Guy. "Well, both have their advantages," unused the Simple ?dug,